Test Planning Contracts

Test Planning
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Test Planning skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Test Planning over the 6 months to 25 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 414 556 594
Rank change year-on-year +142 +38 -29
Contract jobs citing Test Planning 162 132 267
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.38% 0.23% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% 0.26% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 85 182
10th Percentile £363 £386 £306
25th Percentile £413 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £470 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% -6.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £575
90th Percentile £712 £628 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +16.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 3
10th Percentile £67.00 £72.00 £22.21
25th Percentile £79.38 £75.00 £23.45
Median hourly rate £87.50 £80.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% +207.69% -50.00%
75th Percentile £89.06 £85.00 £30.75
90th Percentile £89.63 £88.00 £33.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £87.50 £80.00 £21.39
% change year-on-year +9.38% +274.01% -58.87%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Test Planning is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,593 50,587 79,345
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.80% 89.68% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,580 35,017 55,732
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +8.08%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £485
% change year-on-year - +3.09% +9.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,483 1,675 1,881
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.78 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.05 £37.30 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year -3.36% +45.25% +9.28%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -4.99%

Test Planning
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Test Planning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Test Planning in the UK

Test Planning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Planning.

Daily rate trend for Test Planning in the UK

Test Planning
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Planning over the 6 months to 25 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Planning in the UK

Test Planning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Planning.

Hourly rate trend for Test Planning in the UK

Test Planning
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Test Planning over the 6 months to 25 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Test Planning in the UK

Test Planning
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Test Planning within the UK over the 6 months to 25 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +134 149 £500 -0.74% 42
London +127 85 £550 +4.76% 10
UK excluding London +68 64 £450 -10.00% 34
Work from Home +120 59 £517 +14.89% 16
North of England +30 18 £517 +1.67% 4
South West +17 12 £393 -21.50% 4
Midlands +39 11 £450 -10.00% 4
East of England +18 11 £375 - 8
North West +21 9 £600 - 2
Yorkshire +12 9 £500 +0.05%
South East +6 8 £500 +8.11% 9
West Midlands +14 7 £475 -5.00% 2
Scotland +34 4 £526 +27.39%
East Midlands - 4 £335 - 2

Test Planning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 19 (11.73%) Confluence
2 2 (1.23%) CMS
3 1 (0.62%) WebSphere
3 1 (0.62%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 4 (2.47%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (2.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (2.47%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.85%) Windchill
3 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 15 (9.26%) Loan IQ
2 3 (1.85%) ENOVIA
2 3 (1.85%) Oracle HRMS
2 3 (1.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.85%) Teamcenter
3 2 (1.23%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (1.23%) Oracle Cash Management
3 2 (1.23%) Oracle Financials
3 2 (1.23%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (1.23%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (1.23%) Oracle Payroll
3 2 (1.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (1.23%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.62%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.62%) SAP CX
4 1 (0.62%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.62%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 11 (6.79%) Azure
2 9 (5.56%) AWS
2 9 (5.56%) BrowserStack
2 9 (5.56%) Firebase
2 9 (5.56%) SAP Commerce Cloud
3 8 (4.94%) BlazeMeter
3 8 (4.94%) SaaS
4 5 (3.09%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (1.85%) GCP
5 3 (1.85%) PaaS
6 2 (1.23%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (1.23%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (1.23%) GitHub
6 2 (1.23%) Oracle CX
6 2 (1.23%) Oracle Service Cloud
6 2 (1.23%) SuccessFactors
6 2 (1.23%) Tricentis Tosca
7 1 (0.62%) Azure Stack
7 1 (0.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (0.62%) Commercetools
Communications & Networking
1 12 (7.41%) BGP
1 12 (7.41%) Ethernet VPN
1 12 (7.41%) HSRP
1 12 (7.41%) IPv4
1 12 (7.41%) MPLS
1 12 (7.41%) RSVP
1 12 (7.41%) SNMP
1 12 (7.41%) VPLS
1 12 (7.41%) VRRP
2 6 (3.70%) Cisco IOS
2 6 (3.70%) IOS XR
3 4 (2.47%) Internet
4 3 (1.85%) Software-Defined Networking
4 3 (1.85%) Wireless
5 1 (0.62%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.09%) Oracle Reports
1 5 (3.09%) Relational Database
2 2 (1.23%) Data Lake
2 2 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.62%) Big Data
3 1 (0.62%) DB2
3 1 (0.62%) HDInsight
3 1 (0.62%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.62%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.62%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 40 (24.69%) JIRA
2 16 (9.88%) JMeter
3 14 (8.64%) Postman
3 14 (8.64%) Selenium
4 12 (7.41%) GitLab
4 12 (7.41%) Jenkins
5 11 (6.79%) Cypress.io
6 10 (6.17%) Appium
7 9 (5.56%) Cucumber
8 4 (2.47%) Git
8 4 (2.47%) JUnit
9 3 (1.85%) CppUnit
9 3 (1.85%) PVCS
9 3 (1.85%) Rational DOORS
9 3 (1.85%) REST Assured
9 3 (1.85%) Zephyr
10 2 (1.23%) SoapUI
10 2 (1.23%) TestNG
11 1 (0.62%) Maven
11 1 (0.62%) TestDirector
General
1 54 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 23 (14.20%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (7.41%) Finance
4 10 (6.17%) Banking
4 10 (6.17%) Public Sector
5 8 (4.94%) Games
5 8 (4.94%) Manufacturing
6 7 (4.32%) Investment Banking
7 4 (2.47%) Back Office
7 4 (2.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.47%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (2.47%) Legal
7 4 (2.47%) Marketing
7 4 (2.47%) Wholesale Banking
8 2 (1.23%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.23%) Retail
9 1 (0.62%) Aviation
9 1 (0.62%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.62%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.62%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 45 (27.78%) Analyst
2 32 (19.75%) Lead
3 27 (16.67%) Test Analyst
4 26 (16.05%) Test Leader
5 25 (15.43%) Test Manager
6 24 (14.81%) Business Analyst
6 24 (14.81%) Tester
7 12 (7.41%) IP Expert
8 11 (6.79%) Senior
9 8 (4.94%) QA Tester
10 6 (3.70%) Automation Tester
10 6 (3.70%) Business IT Analyst
10 6 (3.70%) Cisco Expert
10 6 (3.70%) IT Analyst
10 6 (3.70%) IT Business Analyst
10 6 (3.70%) Senior Analyst
11 5 (3.09%) QA Analyst
11 5 (3.09%) Senior Test Analyst
12 4 (2.47%) QA Test Analyst
12 4 (2.47%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (7.41%) Jinja
1 12 (7.41%) JSON
1 12 (7.41%) Middleware
1 12 (7.41%) NETCONF
1 12 (7.41%) XML
1 12 (7.41%) YANG
2 10 (6.17%) ADO
3 9 (5.56%) WebdriverIO
4 6 (3.70%) Gherkin
5 4 (2.47%) .NET
5 4 (2.47%) LDAP
6 3 (1.85%) FIX Protocol
6 3 (1.85%) Oracle Fusion
6 3 (1.85%) pytest
7 2 (1.23%) REST
7 2 (1.23%) Spring
8 1 (0.62%) CSS
8 1 (0.62%) HTML
8 1 (0.62%) React
8 1 (0.62%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (7.41%) Distributed Architecture
2 6 (3.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (3.09%) Onboarding
4 4 (2.47%) IoT
5 2 (1.23%) Equities
5 2 (1.23%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.23%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.23%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.62%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.62%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.62%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.62%) Fixed Income
6 1 (0.62%) FMCG
6 1 (0.62%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.62%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.62%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.62%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.47%) Unix
2 3 (1.85%) Linux
3 2 (1.23%) Android
3 2 (1.23%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.62%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (38.89%) Agile
2 49 (30.25%) Test Automation
3 48 (29.63%) Test Management
4 37 (22.84%) Test Strategy
5 31 (19.14%) User Acceptance Testing
6 29 (17.90%) Problem-Solving
7 28 (17.28%) Scenario Testing
8 27 (16.67%) Test Scripting
9 26 (16.05%) Software Testing
10 25 (15.43%) Project Management
11 23 (14.20%) Defect Management
11 23 (14.20%) DevOps
11 23 (14.20%) Performance Testing
12 22 (13.58%) CI/CD
12 22 (13.58%) Defect Tracking
12 22 (13.58%) Project Delivery
13 21 (12.96%) Regression Testing
14 20 (12.35%) Continuous Integration
14 20 (12.35%) Validation
15 19 (11.73%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 18 (11.11%) Python
2 15 (9.26%) Java
3 13 (8.02%) SQL
4 10 (6.17%) JavaScript
5 4 (2.47%) C#
6 3 (1.85%) C
6 3 (1.85%) C++
7 2 (1.23%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.23%) ProC
7 2 (1.23%) R
8 1 (0.62%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 20 (12.35%) Security Cleared
2 15 (9.26%) SC Cleared
3 13 (8.02%) ISTQB
4 12 (7.41%) Degree
5 6 (3.70%) CCIE
5 6 (3.70%) CCIE Service Provider
5 6 (3.70%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (3.09%) ISEB
7 4 (2.47%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.23%) ISEB Practitioner
8 2 (1.23%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.23%) PMI Certification
8 2 (1.23%) PMP
9 1 (0.62%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.62%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 1 (0.62%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (30.86%) QA
2 5 (3.09%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.85%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.23%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.23%) PMO
5 1 (0.62%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 4 (2.47%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.62%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (2.47%) Ansible
1 4 (2.47%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (0.62%) Grafana
2 1 (0.62%) HP ALM
2 1 (0.62%) Kibana
Vendors
1 12 (7.41%) Nokia
2 10 (6.17%) Microsoft
2 10 (6.17%) Oracle
2 10 (6.17%) SAP
3 6 (3.70%) Cisco
3 6 (3.70%) Fortinet
4 4 (2.47%) Genesys
4 4 (2.47%) VMware
5 3 (1.85%) PTC
5 3 (1.85%) Siemens
6 2 (1.23%) Ariba
6 2 (1.23%) Databricks
6 2 (1.23%) Google
6 2 (1.23%) HP
7 1 (0.62%) Adobe
7 1 (0.62%) Apple
7 1 (0.62%) Avaya
7 1 (0.62%) Informatica
7 1 (0.62%) Workday